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OK - Bill targets sex offenders

View the article here 02/17/2009 By James Coburn - The Edmond Sun EDMOND ? Rep. Jason Murphey (Email, YouTube), R-Guthrie, proposes to add further restrictions to state law that would prohibit some sex offenders from living close to an in-home day care. Terminology of a law signed by the governor in 2008 uses the words ?day care facility? but did not refer to an in-home day care, Murphey said. Murphey said south Logan County residents of a new neighborhood at Simpson and Broadway became alarmed when they learned a convicted sex offender moved into their neighborhood in the vicinity of a new in-home day care. At first, Murphey thought the law?s terminology had been changed by accident. ?When I checked into it, I found out it hadn?t been an oversight,? Murphey said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 17, 2009 (boomark / email).